Last Friday I took the day off to attend the New Braunfels swap meet. Washed & loaded the truck with lots of parts to sell. Got about 10 miles down the road & it suddenly popped out of 3rd gear. Then it was getting harder & harder to get it into 2nd gear. Finally it wouldn't shift into 3rd gear at all. With another 30 miles to go I made the smart decision to turn around & head home. Could only travel 25 mph in 2nd gear but eventually made it.

I finally made it to the swap in the company sedan & discussed it with the guys in the Inliners International club I'm a part of. They all think the synchro gear (brass?) got damaged & screwed up everything else. Don't know anything about transmissions so one of the guys mentioned that he just happened to have a newly rebuilt 3-speed at his shop I could have for $75. I'm going to pull the truck to his place & we're going to swap it with the damaged one.

Chuck
1950 Chevy 1/2 ton (all original)
1951 Chevy 1/2 ton (future streetrod)
1941 Chevy coupe
1938 Chevy coupe streetrod